What Happened Was...

A lightning fast comprehensive recap of the week's biggest events for January 8th - 14th, 2024.

Hunter Biden (center) President Biden's son, and his attorney Abbe Lowell (left) depart a House Oversight Committee meeting on Wednesday. Photo by Kent Nishimura/via Getty Images)

Below is a catch-up of the significant events of this past week. You can check in with a minimal time commitment, read about the big stuff, and stay in the know before we’re on to the next. If you want more information on the past week's events, you can scroll through my Twitter; Bluesky; Spoutible; and Post News feeds for more detail on other topics that I don’t mention below.

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Gun Violence This Week

There were four separate mass shooting incidents in the United States this past week, where five people were killed and 12 were injured. My Sunday recap covers this, as well as the week's most critical news. Here at SHERO, we document all mass shooting incidents for the week every Sunday, so please take a moment to review them and remember to keep up the fight for sensible gun reform. 

1. Sunday, January 7, 2024: Abbeville, Alabama

2. Tuesday, January 9, 2024: Portsmouth, Virginia

3. Thursday, January 11, 2024: Compton, California

4. Saturday, January 13, 2024: Richmond, Texas

• Weeks before the 2020 Presidential Election, Republican operative and close Donald Trump ally Roger Stone reportedly told an associate that in order to intimidate Democratic Members of Congress, that either Democratic Representatives Eric Swalwell (D-CA) or Jerry Nadler (D-NY) “ha[d] to die before the election.”

  

• As part of an Inflation Reduction Act initiative, the Internal Revenue Service has collected more than $500 million from 900 millionaires who had previously refused to pay their taxes.

• A record 6,737 guns were discovered at airport security checkpoints in 2023, and of those weapons about 93% were loaded. This was the third consecutive year that a record was set on gun collection at these locations.